rich editor for comments

[quentin]

currently rich editor is disabled for comments. is there any good reason why ?

function user_can_richedit() {
   global $wp_rich_edit, $pagenow;

   if ( !isset($wp_rich_edit) )
      $wp_rich_edit = ( 'true' == get_user_option('rich_editing') && !preg_match('!opera[ /][2-8]|konqueror|safari!i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && 'comment.php' != $pagenow && rich_edit_exists() ) ? true : false;

   return apply_filters('user_can_richedit', $wp_rich_edit);
}

[Luke]

"Best Guess":

1) Bandwidth
2) Issues (You've seen the issues with it in the back end).


Maybe not, but that's my guess.

[drmike]

Guess as well:  I see konqueror and safari listed in there, both browsers with issues with the rich text editor and wonder if TinyMCE is blocked due to issues with those browsers.

But wouldn't you be turning TinyMCE off within your profile if you had issues with it?

maybe I'm missing something here as well.

[Andrea_R]

My guess woudl be something to do with their sledgehammer security approach.